Russell's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 96, Oct. T., 1910, by Rebecca Russell, executrix from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1909, No. 490, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Robert Russell, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The evidence relating to the claim of the appellee on her note for $600 was deemed sufficient by the auditing judge and the orphans’ court to support the claim and we are not satisfied that there was error in so doing. It was shown that Mrs. Harrison held a note of the decedent for $600 dated March 10, 1883, payable twelve months after date with interest at four per cent. In December, 1907, while she was absent in New York her niece Mrs. Port looked after her affairs in Philadelphia and while so doing a letter from Robert Russell to Mrs. Harrison came to her hand, in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Landis v. RothSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1885
- Burr v. BurrSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1856
- Peters v. RothermelSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906